IMAGE
View of a Curtis aircraft engine
- Date
- 1917-1918
- Reference
- 1/4-123928-F
- Description
View of an American built Curtis aircraft engine in Walsh flying boat "B" at the New Zealand Flying School, Kohimarama, Auckland. Photograph taken circa 1917 by Anton Berntsen.
The engine has eight cylinders so it may be the Curtis OX-5 aircraft engine which was state of the art new in 1917. If earlier it could be the Curtis OXX engine.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative, 8.8cm x 6cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Berntsen, Anton, 1898-1973: Negatives relating the Walsh Brothers' Flying School and farm life at Waipatiki, near Dannevirke
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, 8.8cm x 6cm
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